Hi everyone, Joao Madureira here. During the course of this week we saw an increase of cases installing Knowledge Base article KB 2720211 . What follows are some guidelines we’ve established when facing some problems installing this KB.
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Hello, Joe Tindale here from the WSUS team to give you some tips on those timeout errors you may see when trying to view or approve updates. This problem is prevalent on WSUS2 but it can happen on WSUS3 as well. It usually happens when a large number...

This guide is written to assist specifically in troubleshooting WSUS when clients are not reporting in. We will examine common troubleshooting considerations that needs to be looked at on the WSUS server only , not on the WSUS client. GPO considerations...

NOTE: This article is out of date and no longer applies. We are researching alternaitves and will post them here when available.
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Hey, let's face it, bad luck can strike the best of us, so if you find yourself in a position where your WSUS...

The WSUS client agent may not report to the WSUS server for many reasons. Here I'll go through some of the reasons and how you can troubleshoot the process. There are also some situations you may run into where some or all clients stop reporting to the...

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where the \Content volume on your WSUS server is running out of space but you had no idea how to change where the updates are stored locally? Or maybe the disk where updates are stored fails and the replacement...

Sometimes you may find that it’s necessary to move your WSUS server from one machine to another. If this is you then here are the steps to get this done: 1. Install WSUS on the new Server just as you had installed before. For more information on...

Microsoft has released an update for Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) 3.0 Service Pack 2 (SP2). This article includes information about the contents of the update and how to obtain the update. Issues that are fixed This update lets servers that are...

A common issue we seem to get calls on again and again is the issue where a customer has WSUS configured but when he or she goes to the admin console some clients appear and others do not. You may even notice that it seems to change on a random basis...

Here's a cool tip that comes from Joe Tindale, one of our top Senior Support Escalation Engineers out in Charlotte, North Carolina. If you're seeing 80072ee7 and 0x8024402c errors in your client's WindowsUpdate.log then this may be your issue:
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Client communication When troubleshooting clients, the first thing you'll want to look at is the windowsupdate.log which will be in c:\%windir%\Windowsupdate.log. In order to understand how to read the windowsupdate.log , the reference for it is located...

There is a small misunderstanding in BITS capabilities. When we say "bandwidth-throttling technology uses only idle bandwidth" and thus "downloads do not interfere with or slow other network activity, such as Internet browsing" the...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one talks about an issue where the Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) console crashes when browsing for updates and generates an Event ID 7053. ===== Symptoms The Windows Server Update Services...

This security update resolves a publicly disclosed vulnerability in Windows Shell. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if the icon of a specially crafted shortcut is displayed. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability...

Here's an issue we see every once in a while in product support and since I didn't see it documented very thoroughly anywhere else I thought I would do a quick write up in case you happen to see this some day on your WSUS box. Issue: When the WSUS...

Example Scenario: You just got some new servers and patch them online against Microsoft Update before pointing them to your WSUS server for updates. Symptom: In the WindowsUpdate.log you may see the following. “WARNING: Skipping scan, self-update check...

Here's a good WSUS tip from Joe Tindale , one of the top Senior Support Escalation Engineer in our WSUS support group. If you're seeing 0x80244015 and 0x8024400D errors and are using a load balancer with your WSUS servers then this may be your issue...

Here's a cool tip and a cool tool that was sent to me by Joe Tindale , one of the top Support Escalation Engineers in our WSUS group. If you find that your WSUS clients are not sending status updates back to the server then this is something you'll want...

As explained in KB 931125 , a package that was intended only for client operating systems was also made available to servers through WSUS and Windows Update. This package is designed to update the store of trusted root certificates, and adds a large number...

Many times here in the WSUS product support group we get calls that boil down to some sort of issue with the client. Maybe a DLL is no longer registered for some reason, or maybe the proxy isn’t configured, who knows. Well what if I told you...

Here’s an issue we have been seeing lately that I wanted to let you know about. If you've just rolled out some new clients and are seeing these errors then this should explain why. ======== Issue: Newly built clients may fail to sync...

Here’s a heads up on yet another cool article I found over on the TechNet Wiki that was written by Yuri Diogenes. This one talks about one way you can fix an issue where Windows Update clients are receiving a 8024402C error when checking for updates...

Here's an interesting issue recently discovered by Joe Tindale, one of our top WSUS Support Escalation Engineers out in North Carolina: ======== Issue: When trying to synchronize a WSUS 3.0 SP1 computer, it may not sync and progress may remain at 0%....

Marta Barillas also wrote a significant portion of this blog posting.
Some customers have indicated that some update files are not being downloaded by WSUS after approval, which results in those updates being unavailable to clients.
For an...